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My artificial Paradise
Charles Baudelaire’s Les paradis artificiels has become known as a literary exploration of the experience of being high. Published in 1860, it studies human fascination for the extreme and stylises the impact of intoxication on the mind and senses. While Baudelaire’s essay looks at the complex interrelationship between desire and escapism for poetic literature, the relationship between hallucinatory visions and reality has not lost its fascination since the Romantic period. The adjective “artificial” in Baudelaire’s title names one of art production’s leitmotifs. Earthly paradises are always artificial. Visions always originate in some mind. Art and addiction both stand in a precarious relation to reality. While Baudelaire explored art and artificiality in a longing for ideal wo...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Les paradis artificiels has become known as a literary exploration of the experience of being high. Published in 1860, it studies human fascination for the extreme and stylises the impact of intoxication on the mind and senses. While Baudelaire’s essay looks at the complex interrelationship between desire and escapism for poetic literature, the relationship between hallucinatory visions and reality has not lost its fascination since the Romantic period. The adjective “artificial” in Baudelaire’s title names one of art production’s leitmotifs. Earthly paradises are always artificial. Visions always originate in some mind. Art and addiction both stand in a precarious relation to reality.
While Baudelaire explored art and artificiality in a longing for ideal wo...